Special Report Transcript Episode 49, Section 4, Time 22:35

All they achieved in the attack was to wound one policeman. His unit later also attacked the home of a man they believed was involved in taxiviolence. Again nobody was killed, but a young girl was left deaf.

Intense competition between taxi operators for ranking facilities and routes escalated from 1991 and acquired a political character in certain areas of the western Cape and Transvaal. Over 200 lives were lost in attacks on taxis and passengers in 1992 alone. Organisations formed to bring about ...